Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 05:35

Location- Southern Region, Blossom District, Unknown Location

Unless Jill had something to do with the S-rank dungeon underneath the E-rank dungeon. That was the only reason I could think of her reason for being here and not in some lab back in the central region.

“Now that’s related to my research so I can’t reveal it to you,” Jill did not try to hide that this wondrous sight was somehow related to her research but refused to talk more about it.

“Is this what you call a pregnant dungeon, dungeon within a dungeon?” Though I personally haven’t been to a pregnant dungeon I had seen plenty in clone mask’s memories. As a matter of fact, my Soul pupils were found in a pregnant dungeon, as were most false relics and relics.

“No, this is not a pregnant dungeon. This is something entirely different. As you said pregnant dungeon means a dungeon within a dungeon but there is more to it. Mainly the fact that the dungeon within the pregnant dungeon is of a higher realm and a part of the original dungeon.

These dungeons within the pregnant dungeons are usually limited to the core regions, known as the boss room, and are considered to be the tombs of once-great beings, explaining the false relics and relics being protected by the boss monster.

Making the most noticeable difference between the dungeon in a pregnant dungeon and what we have down here is that it is nowhere big enough to form the independent ecosystem that we get to see here. Trust me on this, I have spent about a week down here and it is nothing close to a pregnant dungeon,” Jill excitedly explained.

“If I were to trust your words I can understand why you don’t prefer to involve the authorities even though what you are doing is legal. You are on to discovering something new here, I see why you would choose extreme means of imprisoning to continue your research without any hindrance,” If I were to come across something new that held the potentially be the next big thing then I too would do exactly the same as Jill maybe be even more extreme. As its discoverer, Jill held the dibs on it but authorities did not play by the same rules. So if she wanted to continue her research here unhindered then she had no choice but to resort to extreme means.

“Though your understanding doesn’t change your situation. It is appreciated,” Jill said that then headed toward her base in the down in the unknown ecosystem.

“Do you mind if I ask doubts?” I asked Jill.

“Sure go ahead,” Jill seemed to not mind me knowing her research. She could be so laid about this because she had decided to kill me or she planned to reveal her research to the world once she is done here so my getting a few insights into her research was not a problem.

“Why did you describe this ecosystem as an S–rank dungeon earlier? Did you find a dungeon core in here with a boss monster protecting it?” Since Jill claimed that what we had here was entirely different from a pregnant dungeon, but her calling this ecosystem a dungeon would make the original E-rank field dungeon fit the definition of a pregnant dungeon contradicting her claims. I am more inclined to the former because I just visited the Clown mask’s stored memory data using Hive AI and there is no information on Jill Norley or the dungeon I am in right now. Make it more likely that what ever Jill found here was never made public meaning the chances of me meeting my maker just went up.

“Yes, I did find a dungeon core and the boss monster protecting it. So in a way, this ecosystem is a dungeon,” Jill explained knowing exactly what my next question was.

“Then doesn’t it prompt you to believe that maybe what you have here may not be a textbook example of a pregnant dungeon but a new variant of a pregnant dungeon?” I asked this because based on my observation and what I hear from Jill so far I was starting to believe that Jill’s discovery did not have any potential to become the next big thing as it was nothing but a new variant of the pregnant dungeon. Unless Jill was using this fascinating dungeon to mask what she was really doing down here.

“Yes, and No,” Jill answered mysteriously and then said, “Mr. Wyatt, you are too smart for your own good. I really did plan to let you go after my work here was done but you had to play detective.”

“Can I take it to mean that this dungeon is a new variant of a pregnant dungeon?” I asked Jill ignoring the fact that she just confirmed what I was dreading, she was indeed procrastinating from tying up the loose ends by killing me.

“I can’t give a definite answer because I myself am in a doubt. But if I had to, then, I would indeed categorize this as a new variant of a pregnant dungeon,” Jill answered truthfully.

“I see,” This meant that there was something of value down here that had attracted Jill’s curiosity enough to have her leave the comfort of her lab. So I asked, “So are you here for the false relic or relic or a treasure of value being protected by the boss monster of this dungeon.”

“Funny you would say that but I guess you were bound to get to this conclusion at some point. I hate to disappoint you but there is no treasure down here, a notable difference between this dungeon and other pregnant dungeons,” Jill said as we went deeper into the dungeon. As Jill said this dungeon was indeed very big, even for an S-rank dungeon.

“Then why are you here? Considering your ego a new variant of a pregnant dungeon is not worth your time. So if you’re going to lie again then come up with a better one than that.”